• Majjari Nagendra Prasad
• G PRAVEEN KUMAR YADAV

ABSTRACT: Diesel and other petroleum products being non-renewable sources of energy are fast depleting. Biodiesel refers to a non-petroleum based diesel fuel consisting of alkyl(like methyl, etc) esters, biodiesel was made by transesterification of vegetable oils and animal fats, which can be used (alone, or blended with conventional petro-diesel) in unmodified diesel-engine vehicles. In aspect of India biodiesel can play an important role in the production of alternative diesel fuel. In the first phase of this work bio-diesel is prepared from lemon grass oil and waste plastic oil be transesterification process. In the second phase of this work the performance study of a diesel engine with diesel and lemon grass oil and waste plastic oil based biodiesel were carried out at injection pressure (150 bars). Fuel characteristics(density, calorific value, viscosity and flash point and fire points), engine performance and characteristics have been investigated and significant improvements were observed. In this paper I have conduct experiments to chart out bio-diesel properties and compared them with those of neat diesel by preparing our own lemon grass oil and waste plastic oil bio-diesel and went to conduct load tests with 100% bio-diesel(also called B100) and also blend B80,B60,B40,B20 and compared this results with those done with neat diesel.

lemon grass oil, waste plastic oil, diesel blends, engine performance, characteristics

"Performance and Evaluation of Blends of diesel fuel with Lemon grass oil and Waste plastic oil in a diesel engine", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.38-50, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807355.pdf

"Performance and Evaluation of Blends of diesel fuel with Lemon grass oil and Waste plastic oil in a diesel engine", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp38-50, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807355.pdf